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THE PUBLIC SPIRIT 
OF THE 

CITIZENS OF CHICAGO 
STILL LIVES 
AND THEREIN LIES 
THE PROMISE 
OF 

THE FUTURE 



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“To make cities is what we are 
here for. For the city is strategic; it 
makes the towns; the towns make 
the villages; the villages make the 
country. He who makes the city 
makes the world. After all, though 
men make life, it is the cities which 
make men. Whether our national 
life is great or mean, whether our 
social virtues are mature or stunted, 
whether our sons are moral or 
vicious, whether religion is possible 
or impossible, depends upon the city." 


HENRY DRUMMOND 







*E ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE 
to the men and women of Chicago 
that Mr. William Wrigley, Jr., has 
contributed $50,000 toward a fund of $100,000 
for a fitting treatment of the four Michigan 
Avenue bridge houses. This gift is especially 
generous because Mr. Wrigley, at the request 
of the Chicago Plan Commission, has spent 
already an extra $20,000 on the beautification of 
the entrance to his monumental building. 


Matching his public spirit, the Ferguson Fund 
Trustees have contributed the additional $ 50,000 
for the bridge houses. The Chicago Plan Commis¬ 
sion expresses for both these gifts the appreciation 
which will be felt by all the citizens of Chicago. 

Through the money thus provided it will be 
possible to make the bridge houses architectur¬ 
ally beautiful and historically significant, a fitting 
cap-stone to the Michigan Avenue improve¬ 
ment. The site of Fort Dearborn and the spot 
where stood the first white man’s house con¬ 
structed in Chicago are both included in the 
plazas, and both will be commemorated. The 
Michigan Avenue improvement is already nota¬ 
ble for imposing views. The bridge houses will 
add artistic charm and a link with the past, 
elements that we shall appreciate more and more 
in Chicago as the city grows older. 

Not only for the direct result but also for its 
influence toward the finer and better city of the 
future, do we value these public spirited bene¬ 
factions. They cannot fail to point the way to 
others who will be called upon to aid in em¬ 
bellishing the improved South Water Street. 


Decorative features and sculpture must be pro¬ 
vided to make the Chicago River attractive, like 
European water-courses, and an object of beauty 
instead of ugliness. 

This treatment of the public thorougnfares 
will raise the standard of private architecture. 
It will have a decisive influence on the char¬ 
acter of the buildings along Michigan Avenue 
from Randolph Street to Chicago Avenue, as 
well as along South Water Street and eventu¬ 
ally along the entire north side of the river. 
Michigan Avenue and South Water Street, con¬ 
nected and beautified, will become as widely known 
as the Place de la Concorde in Paris, Trafalgar 
Square and Hyde Park in London, the Ring- 
strasse in Vienna andUnter den Linden in Berlin. 

Such accomplishment in the future will be 
only a logical continuation of the record of the 
past, because the history of Chicago is replete 
with achievement. The growth in eighty-four 
years, within the span of an extended life, from 
the swampy Indian village to a city of nearly 
three million people, is in itself almost a miracle. 
The world knows no parallel. 

There has been one advance after another. 
Early the city pulled itself out of the mud and 
made possible drainage, by raising the level of 
the streets fourteen feet. Later came the mag¬ 
nificent system of parks and boulevards encir¬ 
cling the city. The far-reaching desolation of 
the great fire was repaired within a few years. 
In 1893 rose t ^ le wonder-revealing World’s Fair 
with its vision splendid. The drainage canal 
reversed the current of the Chicago River to 
provide pure water and promote the public 
health. The Chicago Plan, conceived by the 


genius of Daniel H. Burnham and given to the 
city by the liberality of the Commercial Club, 
shows the greater city to come, more conven¬ 
ient for business,more comfortable and attractive 
for living, with incalculable benefits, economic 
and social, for all the people. The initial under¬ 
takings, Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue, 
are almost completed, and the city is moving 
toward the realization of the entire plan. 

What is it that has brought Chicago to this 
point and enabled it to weld together an un¬ 
broken chain of achievements? The answer is, 
men. Men make cities. Whenever needed in 
the past, men were not wanting, men of vision 
and foresight, stalwart men who recognized the 
potentialities of their city, believed in its future 
and were unafraid. Their example inspired 
others; obstacles were overcome and “I Will” 
was permanently emblazoned upon the shield of 
Chicago. The fine contributions now announced 
show that the public spirit of the citizens of 
Chicago still lives, and therein lies the promise 
of the future. 

Daniel H. Burnham knew whereof he spoke 
when he said: 

“What a wonderful lot of men and women 
Chicago has. Nothing remains to be accom¬ 
plished that cannot be done with our Chicago 
men and women as the power behind.” 

Every day the people of Chicago are doing 
things to justify this confidence. Men and 
women, we appeal to you, do not falter. The 
Chicago Plan is your plan, your ideal for the 
city that you love. Sustain it, bear it ever for¬ 
ward, and the prophecy of the great empire 



‘Drawing by Graham , Andenon , Probst £r> White 

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLL; 
WRIGLEY JR. AND FERGUSON FUN; 
MICHIGAN AVENUE BRIDGE HOUSJ 
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> TRUSTEES TO EMBELLISH FOUR 
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builder of the Northwest, James J. Hill, will 
come true, that when the Pacific Coast has 
twenty million population, Chicago will be the 
metropolis of the world. 


THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE 
CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION 


Charles H. WACKER, Chairman 

A. C. Bartlett 
Edward B. Butler 
Clyde M. Carr 
John J. Coughlin 
Frederic A. Delano 
John V. Farwell 
Albert J. Fisher 
Theodore K. Long 
Joy Morton 

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Frank I. Bennett, Vice-Chairman 

Wm. Nelson Pelouze 
John Powers 
Julius Rosenwald 
Daniel J.Schuyler 
James Simpson 
John F. Smulski 
Charles H. Thorne 
Harry A. Wheeler 
Walter H. Wilson 
Zimmer 


Sculptural treatment of four Michigan Avenue bridge houses 
commemorating Fort Dearborn and the first vohite man's 
house in Chicago — Donation of William Wrigley Jr ., and 
Ferguson Fund trustees. 





















































Chicago Plan Commission 

Room F, Hotel Sherman 

TELEPHONE FRANKLIN 2120 —LOCAL 123 

OFFICERS 

Mayor William Hale Thompson . Honorary President ex-officio 

Charles H. Wacker. Chairman 

Frank I. Bennett. Vice-Chairman 


Eugene S. Taylor, Office Manager E. H. Bennett, Consultan 
ROSTER OF MEMBERS 


Adamowski, Max. 
Amberg, Walter Arnold 
Anderson, Albert O. 
Armour, J. Ogden 
Austrian, Alfred S. 
Baker, Alfred L. 
Bambas, James F. 
Bancroft, Edgar A. 
Bardonski, V. 

Barr, Alfred E. 
Bartlett, A. C. 
Bartlett, Frederick H. 
Beidler, Francis 
Beidler, George 
Bennett, Frank I. 
Berlin, Robert C. 
Billings, Dr. Frank 
Binyon, Lewis D. 
Boehm, John J. 

Bond, William A. 
Bradley, John J. 
Brooks, Robert E. L. 
Brown, Everett C. 
Budinger, John 
Budlong, Joseph J. 
Butler, Edward B. 
Byrne, Thos. F. 
Capitain, Henry D. 
Carlile, Wm. Buford 
Carpenter, Benjamin 
Carr, Clyde M. 

Carry, Edward F. 


Cervenka, John A. 
Chamberlin, Henry Barrett 
Chap, Ignatius 
Clark, A. Sheldon 
Clarkson, Ralph 
Cloidt, Frank X. 

Clow, William E. 

Cohen, Edward 
Connery, J. T. 

Conroy, John J. 

Coonley, Henry E. 
Coughlin, John J. 

Crowe, Albert J. 

Cuneo, Lawrence 
Dasso, Paul 
Davis, Abel 
Davis, Edwin S. 

Dawes, Charles G. 
Defrees, Joseph H. 

Delano, Frederic A. 
Dering, Jackson K. 
Dibelka, James B. 

Dixon, George W. 
Donnelley, Thomas E. 
Downey, Joseph 
Dunbar, Thomas 
Dunne, Edward F. 

Dwen, Robert G. 

Eckhart, Bernard A. 
Ettelson, Samuel A. 
Faherty, Michael J. 
Farley, Edward P. 






Mitchell, John J. 

Moran, Terrence F. 
Morand, Paul J. 

Morton, Joy 
Muelhoeffer, Edward 
Mulcahy, Robt. J. 
Murdoch, Alexander 
Nance, Willis O. 

Nering, John 
Nimmons, Geo. C. 

Norton, Charles D. 
O’Brien, Peter J. 
Ochsner, Dr. A. J. 
Oehman, John S. 

Olsen, Oscar H. 

Osborn, Grant C. 
Ostrowsky, Henry 
O’Toole, Wm. R. 

Ott, Herman A. 
Ottenheimer, Henry L. 
Page, Walter 
Palmer, Honore 
Palt, Frank J. 

Payne, John Barton 
Peabody, F. S. 

Pelikan, D. 

Pelouze, Wm. Nelson 
Pendarvis, Robert E. 
Peterson, Wm. A. 

Petru, Frank J. 
Pettibone, Amos 
Phelps, Charles A. 

Pike, Eugene R. 
Piotrowski, John A. 
Porter, George F. 

Potter, Edwin A. 

Powers, John 
Priess, Abraham 
Rawson, F. H. 

Rehm, William H. 

Revell, Alexander H. 
Reynolds, Geo. M. 
Richert, John A. 
Robertson, Dr. John Dill 
Robinson, Theodore W r . 
Roesch, J. Albert, Jr. 
Rosenwald, Julius 
Ryan, Daniel 
Ryerson, Martin A. 
SCHIAVONE, P. 

Scott, John W. 


Schuyler, Daniel J. 
Schwartz, U. S. 
Shanahan, David E. 
Shanahan, D. S. 

Shedd, John G. 

Shepard, Frank L. 
Siewert, Henry J. 
Simpson, James 
Skala, Frank J. 

Skinner, Edward M. 
Smith, Jos. H. 

Staver, Harry B. 
Strobel, Charles L. 
Strom, A. A. 

Stube, John H. 

Stuckart, Henry 
Sultan, Dr. George 
Sunny, Bernard E. 

Swift, Edward F. 
Szymanski, Walenty 
Taylor, Graham 
Teich, Max L. 

Teninga, Herman 
Thompson, John R. 
Thompson, Hon. Wm. Hale 
Thorne, Charles H. 
Tinsman, Homer E. 

Tobin, T. M. 

Toman,John 
Umbach, Frank L. 

Upham, Fred W. 

Vopicka, Charles J. 
Wacker, Charles H. 
Walkowiak, S. S. 
Wallace, Thomas O. 
Washburn, Edward A. 
Washington, Irving 
Wetten, Emil C. 
Wheeler, Harry A. 
Wieboldt, W. A. 

Wiehe, Christian F. 
Wilder, John E. 

Williams, Dr. J. F. 
Williams, Thomas 
Wilson, Benjamin S. 
Wilson, John P. 

Wilson, Walter, H. 
Woolley, C. F. 

Zander, Henry G. 

Zimmer, Michael 


Farwell, John V. 

Field, E. C. 

Field, Stanley 
Finn, John C. 

Finucane, Thomas J. 
Fisher, Albert J. 
Fisher, Walter L. 
Fitzmorris, Charles C. 
Foreman, Milton J. 
Forgan, David R. 
Forgan, James B. 
Fowler, W. A. 

Francis, Charles R. 
Franz, Matt 
Freund, Louis P. 
Furman, Martin S 
Gallagher, Thomas 
Getz, Geo. F. 

Gillian, Rev. John C. 
Glackin, Edward J. 
Glessner, J. J. 

Goetz, Fritz 
Gordon, Rev. Francis 
Govier, Sheldon W. 
Gray, W. A. 

Griesemer, Charles J. 
Grund, Charles H. 
Guernsey, Guy 
Gunther, Dr. Frank E. 
Haderlein, John 
Hafer, Henry 
Hagey, Dr. Harry H. 
Hall, Richard C. 
Harper, Dr. W. E. 
Harrison, Carter H 
Hartke, Emil A. 
Haugan, Henry A. 
Hebel, Oscar 
Hechinger, C. E. 
Heiser, A. C. 

Herlihy, Daniel 
Hertz, Henry L. 

Hill, Frederick A. 
Hill, John W. 

Hines, Edward 
Holabird, William 
Hooker, George E. 
Horne, John G. 
Hottinger, Otto G. 
Hrodej, Jos. T. 
Hulburd, Charles H. 


Hultin, N. H. 

Hunter, Thomas M. 
Hutchinson, Charles L. 
Jackson, George W. 
Jackson, Robert R. 
Janiszeski, Frank H. 
Johnson, George E. Q. 
Johnson, Nels 
Judd, Edward S. 

Kaspar, William 
Kavanagh, Maurice F. 
Kelly, Rev. E. A. 

Kelly, John M. 

Keyes, Rollin A. 

King, Lawrence F. 

Koch, Frank J. 

Kohlbeck, Rev. Val. 

Kohn, W. C. 

Kowaleski, B. F. 

Krabol, O. O. 

Krueger, William F. 
Krulewitch, Ernest 
Kruse, Fred 
Kunde, Ernest 
La Marre, Rev. Joseph V. 
Laub, Albert 
Legner, Wm. G. 

Leininger, Dr. Geo. 
LeTourneux, Edward D. 
Lipps, W. F. 

Littler, H. E. 

Litsinger, Edward R. 

Long, Theodore K. 

Lurya, Isaac 
Lynch, John A. 

Lynch, Thomas J. 

Mac Chesney, Nathan Wm. 
Mac Veagh, Franklin 
Mamek, Geo. 

Mamer, Christopher 
Mang, Albert G. 

Mark, Clayton 
Mayer, Levy 

McCormick, Alexander A. 
McCormick, Harold F. 
McCulloch, Charles H. 
McJunkin, Wm. D. 
McLaughlin, John J. 
McLaughlin, Robert J. 
McNichols, James, 
Meyerovitz, Dr. M. 






































































































































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